Life, 1910-07-07 · page 7 of 48
Life — July 7, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Left side:** A cartoon captioned "PSHAW! HERE'S A PRETTY FIX! I PROMISED MY WIFE I WOULD BE HOME AT SIX O'CLOCK AND NOW IT'S THREE P.M.!" The image shows a man appearing distressed, likely illustrating car trouble or travel delays—a common early-automobile-era frustration. **Center/Right:** A full-page advertisement for the **Peerless Motor Car Company** (Cleveland, Ohio), marketing their luxury automobile as refined and expensive but worth the cost to discerning buyers. **Bottom:** Advertisement for Washburne's "O.K." paper fasteners. The cartoon humorously plays on contemporary anxiety about automobile reliability and punctuality—concerns advertisers tried to address through luxury branding.
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Position Usrivalled in LONDON. LANGHAM HOTEL Portland Place and Regent St. W. FAMILY HOTEL of the HIGHEST ORDER In Fashionable and Healthy Locality. Reduced Inctustoe Terms during August and September. “psuaw! were’s A PRETTY Fix! PROMISED MY WIFE I WOULD BE 110) SIX O'CLOCK AND NOW 17'S THREE P. M.!"" From Our Readers (Continued from page 6) came. Before the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy began one of the heart- cutting things I heard was that Bal- linger had acreep by stipulation that the Utah fuel company was to get all that land it had obtained by fraud and which Roosevelt had been in a r way to redeem to the general welfare. Next thing I heard of Ballinger was that all the land Roosevelt had with- drawn was again open to entry and was being filed upon like hot cakes. I only know that these things formed background in) my mind from which I could look with different cyes than yours upon the Ballinger-Pi A brass in 3 sizes. Put pin bras’ HANDSOME COMPACT STRONG Ne Sloping, NEVER! ‘The 0, K. Mfg. Co., Syracuse, N. Y., U. S. A. ‘no A HIGHLY REFINED MOTOR CAR THAT IS MADE WITHOUT STINT FOR THOSE WILLING TO PAY FOR. THE BEST THAT CAN BE PRODUCED. CATALOGUE *Q” SENT ON REQUEST THE PEERLESS MOTOR.CAR._ COMPANY 2449 EAST Q3RD STREET: CLEVELAND-OHIO controversy—and with more assured approval than yours upon the part Collier’s has taken in it. A noted writer here, whose name is synonymous with muckraking of the most widely circulated sort, told me the other day that from now on the magazines that have any efficient place among the nation’s mass of readers are going to be those that are edited here, and written by men who have come here in matured life from the Middle West and beyond, That ‘prtticular ? thing an Easterner cannot even template, any more than can the West- erner the omnipotence of a New York office-boy seated three rooms away from the home-grown editor. Wish- ing you tremendous prosperity and an immediate Western tour, I am, Cordially and sincerely, Isaac Russet, New Yorx, May 17, 1910. (Continued on page 9) comicbooks.com